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President's Statement

President Barack Obama, at lectern, delivers remarks on the global campaign to defeat with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and other issues while joined by, from left, Brett McGurk, special presidential envoy for the global coalition to counter ISIL; Attorney General Loretta Lynch; Secretary of State John Kerry; Defense Secretary Ash Carter; and Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., Feb. 25, 2016. State Department photo

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